4:55pm

zzzzz.. am so sleepy and tired and yet here i am listeningto our teacher talking about SOAP! Yes! you’ve heard it right. it’s stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It’s a Simple Object Access Protocol, it is also protocol similar to IIOP which stands for Internet Intern Object Protocol for CORBA. SOAP is not a component model, it is not a programming language. It’s justa  protocol transmitted XML data. What does SOAP define?

Message Envelope

Encoding Rules

RPC Convention

Binding with underlying protocol.

SOAP has a message format also.

We also discussed about WSDL or Web Service Definition Language. It’s an XML nlanguage for describing web services, WEb Service is described as A set of communication.

How JAva tech develops the concept. Using Java app, you can create web service using Jax-WS. what is JAX-WS? Java API for XML services.

Quick Overview of JAX-WS 2.0? It’s a simpler way to develop/ deploy Web services (plain old Java Object(POJO) can be easily exposed as web services, No deployment descriptor needed- use Annotation instead and layered programming model). JAXB( Java Archi for XML Binding).

We also discussed about Programming Model at the Service Side.

oh my gosh! I’m lost! I cant understand what our teacher is talking about.